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Women's suffrage – the right of women to vote – has been achieved at various times in countries throughout the world. In many nations, women's suffrage was granted before universal suffrage, in which cases women and men from certain socioeconomic classes or races were still unable to vote. Some countries granted suffrage to both sexes at the same time. This timeline lists years when women's suffrage was enacted. Some countries are listed more than once, as the right was extended to more women according to age, land ownership, etc. In many cases, the first voting took place in a subsequent year.

Some women in the Isle of Man (geographically part of the British Isles but not part of the United Kingdom) gained the right to vote in 1881.^[1]

New Zealand was the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections; from 1893.^[2] However women could not stand for election to parliament until 1919, when three women stood (unsuccessfully); see 1919 in New Zealand.

The colony of South Australia allowed women to both vote and stand for election in 1894.^[3] In Sweden, conditional women's suffrage was granted during the age of liberty between 1718 and 1772.^[4] But it was not until the year 1919 that equality was achieved, where women's votes were valued the same as men's.

The Australian Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 enabled women to vote at federal elections and also permitted women to stand for election to the Australian Parliament, making the newly-federated country of Australia the first in the modern world to do so, although some states excluded indigenous Australians.

In 1906, the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, which later became the Republic of Finland, was the first country in the world to give all women and all men both the right to vote and the right to run for office. Finland was also the first country in Europe to give women the right to vote.^[5][6] The world's first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the following year.

In Europe, the last jurisdiction to grant women the right to vote was the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden (AI), in 1991. Appenzell Innerrhoden is the smallest Swiss canton with around 14,100 inhabitants in 1990.^[7] Women in Switzerland obtained the right to vote at federal level in 1971,^[8] and at local cantonal level between 1959 and 1972, except for Appenzell in 1989/1990,^[9] see Women's suffrage in Switzerland.

In Saudi Arabia, women were first allowed to vote in December 2015 in the municipal elections.^[10]

For other women's rights, see timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting).

17th century

1689

•  Friesland: Female landowners are allowed to vote in elections to the States of Friesland in rural districts.^[11]

18th century

1718

•  Sweden: Female taxpaying members of city guilds are allowed to vote in local city elections (rescinded in 1758) and national elections (rescinded in 1772).^[4]

1734

•  Sweden: Female taxpaying property owners of legal majority are allowed to vote in local countryside elections (never rescinded).^[4]

1755

•  Corsica: Female suffrage in the independent republic's Diet (assembly; rescinded upon annexation by France in 1769).^[12]

1776

•  New Jersey (US state): later rescinded in 1807

19th century

1830s

1832

•  United Kingdom the Reform Act 1832 limits voting to men only.^[13]

1838

•  Pitcairn Islands^[14][15]

1840s

1840

• Hawaiian Kingdom: later rescinded in 1852^[16][17]

1848

•  Grand Duchy of Tuscany^[18]

1850s

1853

•  Republic of New Granada: The Province of Vélez, in what was then the Republic of New Granada (modern day Colombia), grants universal suffrage to men and women. The Supreme Court annulled the provision for women a few years later.^[19]

1856

•  Norfolk Island following population transfer from Pitcairn.

1860s

1861

•  South Australia – Australian colony of South Australia: property-owning women were given the right to vote.

1862

•  Sweden: limited to local elections with votes graded after taxation; universal franchise achieved in 1919,^[20] which went into effect at the 1921 elections.
•  Argentina: limited to local elections, only for literate women in San Juan Province.

1863

• The Grand Duchy of Finland (An autonomous state ruled by the Russian Empire) limited to taxpaying women in the countryside for municipal elections; and in 1872, extended to the cities.^[20]

1864

•  Victoria – Australian colony of Victoria: women were unintentionally enfranchised by the Electoral Act (1863), and proceeded to vote in the following year's elections. The act was amended in 1865 to correct the error.^[21]
•  Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czechia) – Austrian Empire: limited to taxpaying women and women in "learned professions" who were allowed to vote by proxy and made eligible for election to the legislative body in 1864.^[20]

1869

•  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: single women ratepayers gain the right to vote in local elections under the Municipal Franchise Act 1869.^{[22][23][24][25]}
• United States – incorporated Territory of Wyoming: full suffrage for women.^[26]

1870s

1870

• United States – Utah Territory passed a law granting women's suffrage. Utah women citizens voted in municipal elections that spring and a general election on August 1, beating Wyoming women to the polls.^[27] The women's suffrage law was later repealed as part of the Edmunds–Tucker Act in 1887.
• May 10, 1872, New York City: Equal Rights Party nominates Victoria C. Woodhull as their candidate for US President.

1880s

1881

•  Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia: Female taxpayers allowed to vote in local elections (rescinded in 1895).^[28]
•  Isle of Man (self-governing British Crown dependency, with its own parliament and legal system) (limited at first to women "freeholders" and then, a few years later, extended to include women "householders").^[29] Universal suffrage / the franchise for all resident men and women was introduced in 1919. All men and women (with a very few exceptions such as clergy) could also stand for election from 1919.^[1]

1884

•  Ontario—Canadian province: limited to widows and spinsters to vote in municipal elections; later extended to other provinces.^[30]

1887